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to think that my wife is not playing fair?

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consorttovix · 12/05/2009 17:16

Joined for some wommen type advice - so be frank with me I can take it!

My wife and I got married in 2007. We are very much in love and I was delighted when she got pregnant shortly after our wedding. Unfortunately she was not so thrilled - very surprised and quite angry in fact. Any way things rolled on and she hated being pregnant but I did the best I could to support her. I should add at this point that my wife is in charge of the family firm. She takes her CEO duties very seriously and is I think quite possessive about them. This is not quite what I expected and we had quite a row over our honeymoon - because she had to work she cut it down to three days! Anyway - she found working at this pace near impossible during pregnancy and at last let me sort things out for her a bit. Our daughter was born last year and I was delighted of course. My wife was pleased but disappointed she was a girl I think - the first thing she said to me after the birth was 'the next will be a boy'!

So we go on - she's working at an impossible pace on a massive workload and making a lot of decisions I don't agree with.

What's prompted me to post is that she's told me today that she's got her old nanny coming to work for us from next month. I met this woman at our wedding and I think she's an interfering old bat! I'm not happy but my wife just gets furious and bursts into tears if I object to anything.

I feel like a bit of a spare part tbh so my question is this:

Should I just put up with this or is my wife not playing fair?

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Kimi · 12/05/2009 17:55

good troll thread

consorttovix · 12/05/2009 18:03

I found the post about 'you should be her security now' quite moving actually - because that is how it played out. Really interesting to see Albert described as a wimp or a control freak - plenty of evidence for both imo!

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Jux · 12/05/2009 18:19

Oh very good! We could do with more trolls like you!

consorttovix · 12/05/2009 18:27

Blush Grin

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FabulousBakerGirl · 12/05/2009 18:38

I feel a bit crap actually. Thought I was giving good advice for once.

consorttovix · 12/05/2009 18:46

Oh sorry! You were giving good advice - is it any satisfaction to know that what you suggested is what happened in fact? Albert took over a lot of the nursery planning, did things his way - and Victoria found a security and confidence in their relationship that she never had before. Baroness Lehzen got pensioned off after a few years and quite a lot of rows...

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Nancy66 · 12/05/2009 19:03

Just hurry up and die so she can start getting rogered by Mr Brown...

Greensneeze · 12/05/2009 19:05

Albert was a vile controlling chauvinist pig who bullied his wife and beat his children

kittywise · 12/05/2009 19:08

I thought she rather liked him,

consorttovix · 12/05/2009 19:12

Controlling yes - but a bully? I think that is open to interpretation and if I was picking a bully in that relationship I think I would be look more at Victoria...but he was definately very controlling by nature. when Victoria wouldn't let him in at the ruling the country stuff he turned his energy on to the Royal Household and estates (which was bit crap and very casual and lazy) and got it all knocked into shape asap!

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JoPie · 12/05/2009 19:42

As trollery goes, I have to say that is top class. Absolutely A+

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